DONEGAL COMPANY GETS ‘SMART’ WITH HOTEL OWNERS!

A Donegal company has come up with a device which hotels can use to find out when their customers are arriving and the price and availability of their rooms.

The computer software has been developed by Accubook, a company based in The Diamond, Donegal Town.

The suite, called PocketBook, will allow them to download from a website a combined booking engine, website and channel manager, all of which comes with a unique ‘mobile powered’ management system.

The system is connected via the channel manager to sites such as Booking.com and Hotels.com.

For the first time this offers small to medium sized owner-managers the opportunity to compete with the larger hotels on a level playing field and while on the move, according to senior developer Joe Byrne.

“The concept for this product was created together with our distribution partners in Asia, where whole generations have leap-frogged Laptops and PCs and embraced whole-heartedly mobile phone solutions, but even in Europe we have seen users switching to mobile phones to manage their property.

“We suspect that one reason is that developing for mobile phone use forces the creation of simple, intuitive, easy to use applications. In short it’s often simpler to use a mobile phone than it is a PC or Laptop.”

The positive interest shown in the product has resulted in AccuBook looking at markets further afield, including South America, where products will be released in June

DONEGAL COMPANY GETS ‘SMART’ WITH HOTEL OWNERS! was last modified: January 11th, 2012 by Stephen